sid-testing

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sid is a personal developer cockpit built in Rust. It puts the things you actually use during a workday — git, SSH, databases, ports/processes, system tweaks — into a quick little TUI. One focused tab per concern without any of the other bloat that you may see with applications that deal with these many systems at once. Galaxy-themed because... who doesn't like space?

Status: Early WIP. Spec drafted, implementation forthcoming.

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What's inside (v1)

Tab	What it does
Workspaces	Browse registered code workspaces (umbrella + sub-repos), drive git operations
SSH	Hosts list (merged from ~/.ssh/config + sid-managed), embedded interactive shell via PTY, SFTP browser with download/upload/edit-in-place, per-host command history
Database	Saved Postgres + SQLite connections, multi-line query editor with SQL syntax highlight, paginated sortable results, copy-cell, CSV export, per-connection query history; CLI: sid db add/remove/list/query
Network	Listening ports, processes, interfaces — all sortable; / filter; k kills selected PID with SIGTERM → 5s grace → SIGKILL; CLI: sid net ports/procs/interfaces/kill
System	Pinned config files (Enter launches external kitty + $EDITOR), systemctl services (start/stop/restart, journal tail), user-defined shell quick-actions (available globally from Ctrl+F)
Settings	Theme picker (live preview), keybind editor (capture mode + conflict detection), behavior toggles, workspace roots, quick actions, DB path — all in-app, no config-file scavenger hunt

Plus:

• Detach any tab into another terminal with Ctrl+D — like claude --resume, but for a focused tab
• Session restore on launch if you crash or accidentally close the terminal
• Cosmos theme by default — near-black with red accents and ✦ glyph cues; user-authorable

Why

VS Code is slow and visually noisy. lazygit, gitui, k9s are great but each only solves one thing. tmux + a bag of CLIs is the closest pre-sid setup but requires re-deriving the same layout every session. Zed is cool, but limited in its scope and feature-set.

sid is the layer above. One TUI, six tabs (detachable, re-attachable), an obsession with minimal footprint, fast startup, ease of use, all for the sole purpose of not needing to use slow database apps like DBeaver, or remembering how to kill that one NodeJS instance via some command you Google every other week because you're too lazy to remember it's syntax (lsof -ti:3000 | xargs kill -9, pkill -9 -f "next dev", etc). It's not trying to replace your editor or your shell. It's trying to be the cockpit you live in between edits and shells.

Design philosophy

• Cognitive cleanliness over information density. btop is beautiful but busy; sid is calm & straight to the point.
• Minimal footprint. One binary, one DB file, zero dotfile sprawl.
• Adapter pattern everywhere. Every external library hides behind a trait — swappable, testable, future-proof.
• Persistence-first. Your work is saved continuously. There is no "save" because the DB is the state.
• Keyboard ergonomics. Ctrl+arrows to switch tabs, Ctrl+F for the command palette, Tab for in-pane focus cycling. Defaults sensible; everything overridable.

Quickstart

# Clone, build, run
git clone https://github.com/murphlmao/sid && cd sid
cargo build --release
./target/release/sid

# Or run from source
cargo run -p sid

# Tests
cargo test --workspace

# Override the DB location (otherwise XDG default applies)
sid --db /tmp/sid.redb

# Network inspection (CLI, no TUI needed)
sid net ports                  # listening sockets, table form
sid net ports --format json    # same data, machine-readable
sid net procs --sort cpu --top 20
sid net interfaces
sid net kill 1234              # SIGTERM with 5s grace, then SIGKILL
sid net kill 1234 --force      # SIGKILL immediately
sid net kill port:8080         # kill whoever owns port 8080

# Settings (scripted)
sid settings list                   # dump every setting key + value
sid settings get theme_name         # print one value
sid settings set theme_name void    # change theme (takes effect next launch)
sid settings set default_tab workspaces
sid settings delete theme_name      # remove an override

# System management
sid system pin /etc/nginx/nginx.conf --label "nginx"
sid system pins
sid system unpin /etc/nginx/nginx.conf
sid system services --user
sid system action add "kill 5432" "fuser -k 5432/tcp"
sid system action list
sid system action run <id>